Hope is rising among local experts and community groups that mayoral candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis, a veteran politician and long-time advocate for women, will help correct the under-representation of women on Winnipeg’s city council and within municipalities across Manitoba.

After decades of militarization, occupation of Palestinian territories and disrespect for international law, it’d be a noteworthy task for the Israeli government to be any more repressive of opposing intellectual opinions. But they managed to show the global community that they could do so, and they did so this time by refusing to let Noam Chomsky into their nation to be a guest-lecturer at the West Bank Birzeit University.

Overall, your whole transportation/urban issues paper successfully carried out the trick of being educational while being entertaining. Well done. However, you did propagate the myth that the Panama Canal killed off Winnipeg’s last boom, almost 100 years ago. No, it was the First World War: it cut off both British investment and European immigration.

Casual observers can be forgiven for mixing up Imaginary Cities and Courier News.
On paper, the two new Winnipeg bands are strikingly similar. In both cases, two people from separate, successful musical projects – a dark-haired female with a knockout voice and a prolific male indie rocker – have come together to create songs that are catchy as hell.

Jerrad Peters wants you to get excited about the upcoming World Cup in South Africa.
“It’s the biggest cultural gathering in the world,” the 26-year old soccer columnist for the Winnipeg Free Press and senior writer at Soccer 360 magazine said in a recent interview at his office.

Lixin Fan’s documentary film Last Train Home is many things: an exploration of China’s migrant worker culture, a study in multinational economics and a contemplation of the struggle between work and leisure.

Curt Worden’s film One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur attempts to understand Kerouac by contemplating his book. As well, the film works with the story and riffs off of it with the hope of creating something new in the process.